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PEP.779.005
2 Apr 1779:772 (5/587)
TO A LADY WHO LOVED DANCING.
Written by the late Judge Burnet.
May I presume, in humble lays,
My dancing fair thy steps to praise.
While this grand maxim I advance,
That all the world is but a dance;
That human kind, both man and woman,
Do dance is evident and common.
David himself that God-like King,
We know, could dance as well as sing.
Folks who at court would keep their ground,
Must dance the year attendance round.
Whole nations dance. Gay striking France
Has led the nation many a dance;
And some believe both France and Spain
Resolve to take us out again.
All nature is one ball we find,
The water dances to the wind;
The sea itself at night and noon
Rises and capers to the moon;
The moon around the earth does tread
A Cheshire round in buxom red;
The earth and planets round the sun
Dance, nor will their dance be done
'Till nature in one mass is blended;
Then we may say the dance is ended.
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